Eaton/Dorney nr Buckinghamshire

beverick

Can anyone explain why the Eaton Dorney rowing centre is being classed as being in Buckinghamshire when it is, without doubt, in Berkshire?

Bob

CiB

Cos Berkshire would be abbreviated to Berks, which is berks, which as we all know in the singular is rhyming slang for the Berkshire Hunt.

Bucks is a much nicer place anyway.

Monkeypump

We also have Eton Dorney flags/signs pasted all the way from Windsor to Maidenhead, so LOCOG obviously haven't got a clue where it actually is.

keyser__soze

beverick wrote:

Can anyone explain why the Eaton Dorney rowing centre is being classed as being in Buckinghamshire when it is, without doubt, in Berkshire?

Because it's closely associated with Dorney Village, which is in Buckinghamshire?

The village is on the north bank of the River Thames, and is surrounded to the south, east and west by the non-metropolitan county of Berkshire, with only a narrow strip of land running north (through Burnham) to the main body of Buckinghamshire. This anomaly dates to the Local Government Act 1972, which came into force on April 1, 1974 – the village had been originally included in Berkshire as the Bill, but an amendment to keep it in Buckinghamshire was proposed by local MP Ronald Bell, and accepted by the government.

schlepcycling

The real reason is because it is in Buckinghamshire, the county boundary runs along the Thames between the rowing lake and Windsor race course then turns up the map so to speak to encompass Burnham. The rowing lake is in a small pocket right a the very southern tip of the county of Bucks.

Monkeypump

Blimey - every day is a school day!

upperoilcan

For the record it's not Eton Dorney,It's Dorney,always has been and always will be....

Who on earth within the Olympic committee took it upon themselves to start renaming villages ??????????

Hooligan Bill

upperoilcan wrote:

For the record it's not Eton Dorney,It's Dorney,always has been and always will be....

Who on earth within the Olympic committee took it upon themselves to start renaming villages ??????????

Would imagine it has more to do with Eton College wanting to push their profile, after all it is their rowing centre.

keyser__soze

Even Eton College themselves call the lake Dorney Lake - http://www.dorneylake.co.uk/index.html. No-one in the rowing world has ever called it Eton Dorney either, think it must be a LOCOG thing.